In this thread is revealed;
One reason why some people hesitate to get therapy.
Suppose someone is OK and could get through life without needing therapy.
Now suppose that person growing up gets beat up by bullies and further traumatized by abusive parents and/or other family members.
So now they have problems they need to work out.
Perhaps in this case the best therapy might be learning martial arts which will boost their self confidence, not just in case of physical bullies, but in dealing with people in ANY situation.
But when they go to a therapist or psychiatrist, the first thing they are told is “chemical imbalence” and “you need medication”.
Martial arts would never even be THOUGHT of, by these “professionals”.
They have such linnear inside the box, thinking and often cannot come up with origional and ACTUAL solutions.
And if they did not have a chemical imbalance before being mistreated in life they do not have one now either, unless it is one created by the situations, which would by definition, mean that solving the problems in the situations, would then reverse the chemical imbalance (if one was indeed ’caused’ in the first place) which would in turn mean that solving the situation would be the solution, NOT DRUGS, in this particular case.